PlayStation 3: Game disc EBOOT.BIN decrypted

More news for the PS3 development scene. Word on the street is that a dev team has successfully decrypted a PlayStation 3 game disc’s ELF File, opening up both its Eboot.bin and file layer. The team also posted a screenshot as proof of the attempt – you can view it over in the full article.

As some recent events indicate, the community is beginning to make headway in cracking open Sony‘s PlayStation 3 console. The PS3News site’s dev has announced that they have successfully decrypted ELF file from a PS3 game disc. Quoting CJPC’s post regarding the details:

This removes BOTH the disc layer of encryption on the EBOOT.BIN, as well as the file layer of encryption.

Here’s a screenshot of the decrypted file to give the readers an idea of their current progress:

Aside from the announcement, the dev team also states that they’ve successfully downgraded a PS3 without using a previous flash dump backup. That’s all the information we’ve picked up so far regarding this ongoing project. Drop by again in case we receive word of any related updates.

Via PS3News